Poll: Do you agree with penalty points for fly-tippers?

Fly-tipping is blighting our streets and countryside, with everything from aged mattresses to breached TVs a communal sight. Could slapping offenders with punishment points connected their driving licence assistance halt the rot?

A erstwhile apical Tory has suggested slapping punishment points connected alert tippers' driving licences successful bid to deter radical from dumping and we privation to cognize what you think.

From ditched aged sofas and breached TVs to operation debris and household waste, the occupation isn't conscionable an eyesore - it’s a large contented for communities crossed the UK. The messiness near down by this scourge connected nine creates a unsafe and unsanitary environment, often attracting pests and causing pollution.

Sadly, it's not conscionable the disposable harm that’s concerning, but the long-lasting effects it has connected wildlife and section ecosystems. Items similar aged mattresses tin instrumentality years, if not decades, to decompose, leaking harmful chemicals into the ungraded and water.

It's not a tiny problem, either. According to a caller survey by Keep Britain Tidy, much than 90 per cent of sites successful England had rubbish scattered around.

And here’s a existent shocker - 1 successful 5 section authorities didn’t contented any fines for littering successful 2021-22.

Which is wherefore Baroness Warsi, the erstwhile seat of the Conservative Party, thinks adding punishment points to driving licences for radical caught fly-tipping could beryllium a game-changer.

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She points retired that "part of the occupation is not capable section authorities are prosecuting. People deliberation that this is simply a transgression wherever they're not going to beryllium caught.

The baroness believes it's captious to "educate a caller procreation of the harm that littering and fly-tipping does to the environment, to wildlife, to plants."

According to Keep Britain Tiday, much than a cardinal fly-tipping incidents blighted our situation successful 2022/23.

Chief enforcement Allison Ogden-Newton said: “It is clip for the nationalist and our justness strategy to accidental ‘enough is enough’ and tackle the selfish vandals who are trashing our situation for profit.

"The nationalist tin play their portion by ensuring that they lone springiness their unwanted ‘stuff’ to reputable, licensed discarded carriers who volition dispose of it correctly and the courts indispensable assistance by utilizing the sizeable sentencing powers they person bid hefty fines and adjacent jailhouse ‘professional fly-tippers’ erstwhile they are caught.

“Environmental transgression is not a victimless transgression – we are each victims of it.”

What bash you think? Will slapping punishment points connected driving licences assistance to discourage fly-tipping? Take our canvass supra and person your accidental successful the comments.